User talk:Florentyna/Archive

GOODMINTON
Hi Florentyna, nice to meet more people interested in creating badminton related articles. There's also another user who works quite hard in the English Wikipedia, his name is Aleenf1. I think it's a good idea to coordinate the work in German and English - not to make it twice. Aleenf1 created a project called WikiProject Badminton, if you don't mind, we could talk about how to do it there, I'm sure that Aleenf1 will be interested too; and if there are also more people interested, they will be able to read what we say and also collaborate. I'm going to open a section there and we talk about it, do you agree?

PD: Nice work in the German Wikipedia! MontanNito 20:41, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Good, let's talk there. --Florentyna 20:45, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * A very useful thing should be a simple transformation algorithm Spanish <> English <> German - My offer: If somebody needs some European badminton tournaments data (winners) in a table (at least up to 2002) - feel free to ask  Florentyna 20:53, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Here it is: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Badminton. MontanNito 21:40, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Could you visit Talk:All England Open Badminton Championships? Thank you :-) MontanNito 08:56, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Possible I will find this, but it will take some time for searching. But some results already  found  --Florentyna 10:59, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1964 LONDON. Neuer inoffizieller Weltmeister im Federball wurde bei den All-England-Meisterschaften in der Londoner Wembley-Hall der Däne Knud Aage Nielsen, der im Finale seinem Landsmann Henning Borch mit 8:15, 17:14, 15:4 das Nachsehen gab. Den Damen-Titel holte sich zum fünften Male hintereinander Jud Hashman (USA) in einem Elf-Minuten-Finale gegen Ursula Smith (Großbritannien) mit 11:0, 11:3. Dagegen unterlag Jud Hashman im Doppel-Endspiel mit ihrer Schwester Sue Peard (Irland) den dänischen Schwestern Karin Jorgensen/Ulla Rasmussen mit. 11:15, 15:6, 10:15.
 * 1965 LONDON. All-England Meisterschaften, Endspiele: Kops (Dänemark)-Tan Aik Huang (Malaysia) 15:13, 15:12. Smith (GBR)-Strand (Dän) 11:7, 11:7. Herren-Doppel: Ng Boon Bee/ Tan Yee Khan (beide Malaysia)-On Chong  (Malaysia)/ Kops (Dänemark) 15:7, 15:5, Jörgensen/ (beide Dän)  - Pritchard Smith (beide England) 15:10 (and ???). Mix: Dänemark - Pritchard Jordan 9:15. 15:4, 15:12.
 * --Florentyna 11:09, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

New article
Hi! I have created the Badminton World Cup article. I hope you can use it in the German Wikipedia too. :-) MontanNito 20:07, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Serious advice
Hello, sorry, some advice for you. Please do not create the result on the talk page, as copyvio material also as you did to some pages, a talk page is to make discussion, not to put result. You can create the year of tournament occur like "2003 TOUR NAME", but don't do it in talk page, people will not aware your edit, if want to quick done, just put bullet list of players and result. Please respect the talk page guideline. Thanks --Aleen f 1 08:35, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Yu Yang
Thanks for your message. I think you are right. They are likely the same person. I have removed it from the list. And I just requested to move Yu Yang (disambiguation) to Yu Yang at Requested moves as an uncontroversial proposal.--Neo-Jay (talk) 09:32, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

1982 All England
Hi!! I have answered you at Talk:List of All England Men's Singles champions. I hope we can solve it :-) MontanNito (talk) 13:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Notability of Norweigan International Championships (badminton)
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Books
Hi, and thanks for the new badminton books. Some comments and suggestions however. I notice that these are simply an alphabetical ordering of all (most?) badminton-related articles. Good books usually have a sort of topic and chapter structure. For example you could have a book that would give an overview of the sport itself as well as its history, one just for badminton players, one just for tournaments, etc...

If you need any help, just check out WP:Books, Help:Books or WP:WBOOKS. (Or drop me a line, that works too). Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 15:48, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the remarks. I today found this book function for the first time - GREAT! I hope other users can edit the books, too. A lot of work remained (for instance in a badminton book it is not necessary to have the word "badminton" in every lemma, the front page must look better and so on. Probably there are also problems with the graphic versions of the tournament results). A chapterwise publication is a good idea, too. Best would be that there are two different versions of a badminton encyclopedia - one alphabetical lexicon and one chapterwise structured reading book. Here my intention was to create the alphabetical version. Best regards --Florentyna (talk) 18:35, 2 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh yes, everyone can edit books. If you need to recruit other editors to help you with them, just ask on Talk:Badminton or at WP:SPORTS, I'm sure a couple would help you. As for the repetition of "badminton", you can rename articles. See Help:Books/for experts. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 22:05, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Bae Youn-joo
Hello, With regards to the spacing of the Record Against Selected Opponents section I appreciate your mentioning that spacing depends on the display size. I tried a different solution, this time reducing the number of columns to three. Does this work better? --SargentIV (talk) 18:16, 3 June 2010 (UTC)


 * This works! Regards, --Florentyna (talk) 18:44, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Old BWF link
Florentyna, stop revert to old BWF profile link! As the old page is no longer supported by BWF. If not working with player ID, just change the link address or just defunct the link to BWF profile, two ways.--Aleen f 1 11:14, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The problem is, that the new one is also not working correctly. The right BWF-ID will not work with the changed template. --Florentyna (talk) 11:27, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Change it, like the one with Lee Chong Wei, search the new URL, copy and paste.--Aleen f 1 11:54, 15 October 2010 (UTC)


 * This is probably not very good. The useful information BWF-ID will be lost during this process. --Florentyna (talk) 12:40, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Badminton
Oh Florentyna, I can't believe you removed this contribution! The fact that a badminton court is very large like a basketball court is information the world NEEDS to know!!! ;) r ʨ anaɢ (talk) 13:22, 18 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Really a (wrong) thing everybody has to know... ;-) --Florentyna (talk) 13:29, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Sudirman Cup
No need to panic; the article is now semi-protected, so IPs cannot edit it.  Chzz  ► 16:38, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Nomination of Rune Massing for deletion
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Categorization of Taiwanese Olympic badminton players
I removed Category:Taiwanese badminton players from those who are also in Category:Olympic badminton players of Taiwan, since the latter is a subcategory of the former. I am therefore going to revert your re-additions, but if you have a convincing reason why this should not be done, please let me know. Thanks. --Nlu (talk) 16:00, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I removed it because every olympic badminton player is sorted twice in Category:Olympic badminton players by country and also in Category:Badminton players by nationality. The matter with the olympic categories is, that the overview of the badminton players is getting lost. For me the olympic badminton players and commonwealth badminton players categories (and so on) are making not much sense. One can let the categories for people dealing often with olympic games, but for normal work the badminton player by country categories should contain all the players of a country including the olympic players in the root category. --Florentyna (talk) 16:28, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * PS: I looked through some olympic sportsmen categories (volleyball players, ice hockey palyers). Everywhere the players are listed both in the olympic category and in the national category. So I think we should let this double categorization like it is. --Florentyna (talk) 16:34, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't agree that this is the right categorization scheme; essentially, it leaves the category redundant. I am not going to re-revert, but I am going to open an RfC on this.  (No, there's nothing inappropriate that you did; it's just that this categorization scheme is in my opinion inappropriate, and I've been removing the redundant categories whenever I ran into them.)  --Nlu (talk) 16:41, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't like redundancies very much, too. But here you would have to re-organize all the entries in the Category:Olympic competitors by sport. And for it seems, that a lot of people are satisfied with the current situation. Especially if there will be mixed into the catgorization even more subcategories similar like the Category:Olympic competitors by sport (for instance competitors at Commonwealth games, World Championships, Asian Games...), the main country category will be more and more useless. --Florentyna (talk) 16:49, 31 January 2011 (UTC)


 * That doesn't make them useless; they're supercategories, which is what they're supposed to be. Basically, if we keep adding supercategories to article pages, the article pages will be so cluttered with categories that the categorization scheme will itself become useless.  --Nlu (talk) 17:00, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Re: Category talk
Hey, i replied on the talk page. Kante4 (talk) 17:19, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

Flandy Limpele
I come from the same village as Flandy and my great-grandmother's last is also Limpele. We are not Chinese Indonesians, we're Indonesians. CakalangSantan (talk) 19:41, 1 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I removed your edit because you deleted a lot of other content in the article (medal tables etc.) --Florentyna (talk) 07:56, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Re:Chinese badminton names
Hi Florentyna, since the information of retired badminton players were very limited in Chinese websites, I could confirm 4 of them only. Here they are:
 * de:Cheng Jiao 程姣
 * de:Dong Fang 董芳
 * de:He Shangquan 何尚全
 * de:Yu Yuk Geor 游玉娥

--Wongpong (talk) 05:16, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

New page patrol
Hi Florentyna,

I've just gone through and new page patrolled all your articles about the IBF and WBF World Championships, adding WikiProject Badminton banners to them all. If you intend to create lots of new articles in the future (about badminton or anything else), please ensure you put WikiProject banners on the talk pages. If you do this for all new articles, you can apply for Autopatrolled status and reduce the workload on New Page Patrollers. Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. —Tom Morris (talk) 19:49, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Sri Lankan National Badminton Championships


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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Intoronto1125 (talk) 16:17, 24 February 2011 (UTC)


 * It (the deletion template) is the wrong template - national championships are in general notable (see for instance: A national championship season at the top collegiate level is generally notable in Notability (sports). And this championship is much higher than a collegiate one). The article is "only" incomplete, but it is the only information I got from the references. By the way, it is the first time at all, that these data are published in English in an electronic document. --Florentyna (talk) 16:37, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

==MfD nomination of Book:Badminton - The Wikipedia Reference Guide Part I/Part II/Part III/Part IV== Book:Badminton - The Wikipedia Reference Guide Part I/Part II/Part III/Part IV, pages you substantially contributed to, have been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Book:Badminton - The Wikipedia Reference Guide and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Book:Badminton - The Wikipedia Reference Guide Part I/Part II/Part III/Part IV during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:43, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Regarding your "keep" rationale; I don't think you get the book concept on Wikipedia. "Everything in alphabetical order" is not how the Wikipedia books are done. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 17:05, 25 February 2011 (UTC)


 * If you look into standard badminton literature (Pat Davis: Encyclopaedia of Badminton, Hale, England 1987, ISBN 0709027966) there is used the same way of mixing tournaments and people together and everything is sorted alphabetically. I don't think, that everything in wikipedia must be so revolutionary like requested. A 1000 years old concept of alphabetically sorting seems for me not so bad. --Florentyna (talk) 18:11, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

All moved. See User:Florentyna\Badminton - The Wikipedia Reference Guide Part I, User:Florentyna\Badminton - The Wikipedia Reference Guide Part II, User:Florentyna\Badminton - The Wikipedia Reference Guide Part III and User:Florentyna\Badminton - The Wikipedia Reference Guide Part IV. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 04:15, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Badminton
Hey just wanted to let you know I love badminton. I have a lot of knowledge of the sport (maybe not as much as you). However, these articles I nominated have no sources and clearly should be deleted. For example, the SIngapore championships was not nominated, because it had sources. Intoronto1125 (talk) 16:12, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * As for Channarong Ratanaseangsuang I am guessing that was a mistake not intentional.


 * Please do not remove the deletion tag until it has been settled. Intoronto1125 (talk) 16:15, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * But if there are missing sources or there are problems with sources, you should use another template like for instance {BLP sources}. A missing or wrong source is no reason for a deletion request. --Florentyna (talk) 16:21, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

And it is not right what you are saying - every of the articles has a reference section where you can download all the results of the championships line by line. In the link Badminton Europe - Details of affilated national organisations on every page you will find a pdf-document with everything you need (except for Vietnam). --Florentyna (talk) 16:27, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Oh really? but most of the links i clicked on in the articles were not working. If you can fix it most certainley it will be removed. Intoronto1125 (talk) 17:06, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * This is everytime the problem with links... Faster dead than created. I will look on it. Nevertheless - also a dead link is no reason for deleting an article. BLPimprove (or similar) is the template for that. --Florentyna (talk) 17:49, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Okay, I found one general mistake in the links: eurobadminton.org must be replaced with badmintoneurope.com due to the name change from EBU to BE. --Florentyna (talk) 17:55, 26 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Ok go ahead and do that and i will go remove the tags. Intoronto1125 (talk) 17:57, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Badminton at the Deaflympics
Hello, I noticed that you created and have been the sole editor of the "Badminton at the Deaflympics" article. I also notice that there are alot of red links on the article with only one wikilink to an article about Rajeev Bagga. May I ask if you intend to write articles on the other participants? If not, may I make the suggestion that the red links be converted to normal text to make it easier to read. I did not want to make any edits to the article without getting your opinion first as I respect the work that editors do on Wikipedia. Russell Dent (talk) 01:41, 27 March 2011 (UTC)


 * From my side there will be probably only articles about Kristina Dovidaityte und her husband Tomas. So if you want to make the other links black feel free to do so. --Florentyna (talk) 06:59, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

Ángel Pacheco
Thanks for adding those categories on my article. Appreciate it. MetaCow (talk) 02:43, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem. --Florentyna (talk) 06:16, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Jordan Badminton Federation
Hello! Since you'd done some work on the article and clearly intend to expand it, I'll gladly restore the article. It got swept up by the mass deletion function. Thanks for alerting me to my error. Regards, --PMDrive1061 (talk) 19:19, 24 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot. --Florentyna (talk) 19:22, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Anytime. :)  It's up and ready to go with the entire edit history intact.  Thanks again.  PMDrive1061 (talk) 19:24, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Misbun article
Yeah, somebody sure did add a lot of content, and not only is much of it ungrammatical but some of it is just plain factually wrong. Where did somebody get the idea that Misbun was the first Malaysian to reach the top level of international play by age 24? If that editor doesn't know about Eddy Choong or Tan Aik Huang then he shouldn't be writing about Malaysian badminton players. Anyway, I'll see what I can do. Regards. Badmintonhist (talk) 17:25, 26 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot, there are for me a lot of translation errors. Probably thats why some "facts" appear now in a wrong way. --Florentyna (talk) 20:55, 26 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello Florentyna. Could you possibly describe the 1982 incident that Misbun Sidek was involved in? I simply can't understand what happened as it is now described in the article and I don't want to leave the whole thing out when I rewrite it. Thanks. Badmintonhist (talk) 20:55, 30 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Here is an article about Misbun's behavior. Here is a second one:  Florentyna (talk) 07:03, 31 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Perfect. Thanks. Badmintonhist (talk) 15:44, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

May 2011
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 * Thank you for the remark, but is it again nonsense what you did there. --Florentyna (talk) 07:00, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree with you that the report was a mistake, but calling it "nonsense" is probably not the most helpful to describe it, as I have no doubt it was made in good faith. Likewise, when someone makes an edit in perfectly good faith, even if you regard it as mistaken, calling it a "troll attack" is not helpful. The effect of doing so is likely to be to make other editors see you as being obstructive (even though I think you too were acting in good faith). It is important to realise that Wikipedia fundamentally depends on cooperation, and anything which looks, rightly or wrongly, like incivility makes such cooperation less likely. Generally speaking the editors who are most successful here are those who are civil even when they think civility is not deserved, and assume good faith even when they have doubts about the motives of other editors. JamesBWatson (talk) 08:03, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

I have read your response to this on my talk page. If what you say is true then you may be right about the "troll attack". However, it didn't look that way in the ANI discussion. Perhaps the thing to do in cases like this is to just give a few words of explanation as to why you see it as trolling, so that other editors can understand your point. JamesBWatson (talk) 09:21, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Re - The Times Badminton results
No problem, I'll see what I can find - although it might take some time.Topcardi (talk) 12:50, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

August 2011
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Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Armenian National Badminton Championships, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions  22:06, 10 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Please don't try all the templates you find on Wikipedia on any badminton pages and on my personal pages. You are contributing most of the time really good things to Wikipedia - but what you do with the templates (deletion requests and so on) is really nonsense. It is contraproductive and wrong. Florentyna (talk) 22:12, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

Please stop. Continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Sri Lankan National Badminton Championships, without resolving the problem that the template refers to may be considered disruptive editing. Further edits of this type may result in your account being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions  23:31, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you remove the maintenance templates from Wikipedia articles without resolving the problem that the template refers to, as you did at Armenian National Badminton Championships, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions  23:33, 10 August 2011 (UTC)


 * I suggest you fix the problem instead of removing the templates, take Sri Lanka for an example:


 * "Its references would be clearer with a different or consistent style of citations, footnoting or external linking." - there are no citations within the article, only a reference at the end which doesn't link to anything on the article.
 * This is the only thing you are right.


 * "It needs more links to other articles to meet Wikipedia's quality standards" - It only links to two different articles.
 * It links to 3 articles, and this is enough, probably 30% of all Wikipedia articles link to less than 4 articles.


 * "It needs attention from an expert on the subject"  - off course it needs an expert, because a majority of the article is blank.
 * With "need an expert" is meant something different. This is for instance for complicated scientific problems.


 * "Very few or no other articles link to it. Please help introduce links to this page from other articles related to it." - a quick look over suggests only one article (Niroshan Wijekoon) links to this article.
 * 3 Articles linking in. This is enough, probably 20% of all Wikipedia articles have less than 4 articles linking in.


 * "It may need to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards." read the definition of "wikify".
 * It is simple a table, nothing to wikify. Look at category Category:Lists - there you can use the templates thousand times.


 * "Its lead section may not adequately summarize its contents. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of the article's key points." The lead section does not summarize the contents of the article.
 * What is so hard to understand? Everything is said in the introduction.

Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions  23:38, 10 August 2011 (UTC)

As for "but what you do with the templates (deletion requests and so on) is really nonsense. It is contraproductive and wrong." I disagree it will encourage you to fix the issues at hand. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions  04:49, 11 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, come on. Let's discuss your test edits on a higher level. Florentyna (talk) 07:52, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

December 2011
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 * Please, don't welcome me and don't use templates you don't understand. Use the talk page there on the Canadian National Badminton Championships page, if you don't understand the list of the Canadian National Badminton Championships. Florentyna (talk) 15:04, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

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Use of original name?
Hey, Florentyna, do you think all Super Series tournament should "re-name" as "Open" tournament rather than use the name Super Series for their coverage? e.g. 2011 Korea Open Super Series as 2011 Korea Open. It is because now BWF reuse the original name rather than given a Super Series title. Hopefully you reply, thanks! --Aleen f 1 14:48, 25 December 2011 (UTC)


 * A problem will be, when doing this, for countries with more than one important tournament, for instance India Open Grand Prix Gold and India Super Series, also for Korea. --Florentyna (talk) 21:18, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

World Masters Athletics Championships
You recently removed categories World Indoor Championships in Athletics, World championships, Sports events, Athletics (track and field) competitions

How do you justify this? The World Masters Athletics Championships fit all these categories. The World Indoor Championships in Athletics category has apparently disappeared because of an ill advised conversion to IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics, which is not appropriate for World Masters Athletics. I can't find that discussion, which is already probably closed without my input. Now are all these other categories in the same route? Or did you just do this on your own? Before we damage more categories, please let me know where these discussions are occurring and stop the removals until I can try to talk sense to these people. Trackinfo (talk) 03:37, 29 January 2012 (UTC)


 * See Categorization. There: Each article should be placed in all of the most specific categories to which it logically belongs. This means that if a page belongs to a subcategory of C (or a subcategory of a subcategory of C, and so on) then it is not normally placed directly into C . Means: The article World Masters Athletics Championships is in category World Championships in Athletics, what is subcategory of IAAF competitions (and World championships), what is subcategory of Athletics (track and field) competitions, what is some levels higher subcategory of Events. According to the categorization rules it is not allowed to list the categories IAAF competitions, Athletics (track and field) competitions, World championships, Events (and so on) directly on the page World Masters Athletics Championships, because all these categories are logically included in the lowest used category. (I hope this was somehow understandable). Best regards Florentyna (talk) 08:36, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Category changes
Hi Florentyna! In regards to edits such as these. When an article has an eponymous category (i.e. a category based on the article title), it does not mean that the other categories should be removed. In most cases, all those super categories should feature in the category and the article. Cheers. SFB 19:13, 1 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, and thats why my changes were correct. If we do it in your way, the according categories must be eliminated from Multi-sports events. But here the main article belongs to the category with the same name, and all articles of the category belong to Multi-sports events. Try to read carefully eponymous category and look at the example France there. France is an European country and belongs to this European category, but neither all articles from the Category:France. So France must be in this case outside of the category. For the competitions here in our case is no need of this. Florentyna (talk) 20:14, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Note this line:


 * "The question arises as to whether eponymous categories should be placed in (made subcategories of) the categories which their corresponding articles belong to"
 * This refers to how we categorise the category, not the article. Hence the statement in bold which follows that line. The article France appears in Category:European countries, just as all the other articles on European countries do. Just because Category:France also appears in that European category, it does not mean that France disappears into the eponymous category and falls out of the super category. I'm going to request that this be clarified in the guidelines. SFB 17:59, 2 February 2012 (UTC)


 * No, it (the understanding) is vice versa. The Category:France does not belong to the Category:European countries, but the article France does. In our case the article Commonwealth Games for instance belongs to Multi-sports events, and the category Commonwealth Games, too. So there is no need to have it outside of the category in the Multi-sports events (but it can be different in other categories, that it must be outside). I will find an example. Florentyna (talk) 20:14, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * What you are saying completely contradicts the boldface statement saying "an article should not be excluded from any set category on the grounds that its eponymous category is made a "subcategory" of that category". I'm in the middle of redrafting that section to make this clearer in future. SFB 18:40, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

February 2012
Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to June Bevan, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Dl2000 (talk) 00:44, 14 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Categorization: Normally the most essential, significant categories appear first. Spacing with Punctuation: . And: Persondata (okay, there are both ways of the birth date possible.) Also: Citing sources (June Bevan is not the author of the reference cited). --Florentyna (talk) 07:40, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

April 2012 - Category Assignments
Can I ask a quick question I understand a lot of your edit of Categories and in hindsight carrying on the Category assigned by others to similar organisation probably doesn't help wikipedia improve but I am always nervous of removing others work. However I did find it strange that the navbox say for example Template:National Members of the International Modern Pentathlon Union you felt shouldn't have the tag to the Category it is linked to National_Members_of_the_International_Modern_Pentathlon_Union. I would be interest in your thoughts on this there probably some wikipedia protocol I haven't read. But if the category tag is there it is more likely to be maintain and this is a common practice over wikipedia. Thought I would rather discuss this here than undo it. User talk:Yachty4000 17:06, 18 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Some general guidelines: a) No mixing of template and article categories (templates remain only in the template category section). b) Use only the deepest category. No more higher categories are needed. Example: Russian Yachting Federation is in Cat:Sports governing bodies of Russia what is in Cat:Sport in Russia, so you don't need to add Cat:Sport in Russia to Russian Yachting Federation. c) No use of people categories for organizations etc. Russian Yachting Federation is not an Olympic sailor, there are only people in this category. d) An organization is not a club (in the most cases). --- I hope, this was somehow understandable, feel free to ask if there are more unclear things on Wikipedia or with my edits. Best regards --Florentyna (talk) 16:34, 18 April 2012 (UTC)


 * This all makes sense to me except wouldn't it be nice if someone editing the template for example "International Modern Pentathlon Union" could see the category? Lots of templates/Navbox have the category linked ending with "|  ]]" so they appear at the top of the category. This is my main question I understand the rest of what you say and agree I was just copying what others have done :-) but will not in the future User talk:Yachty4000 19:17, 18 April 2012


 * The Template:National Members of the International Modern Pentathlon Union seems to correct in the categories. (Probably I did not understand the question right.) The use of "|  ]]" is a very common thing, it denotes the most important article or template of a category (in the most cases the template/article with the same name like the category. It is also used in a similar way for articles or templates with special characters to sort them correctly. For instance a template Österreich (for Austria) will be sorted as "Österreich|Osterreich]]". By the way, for the beginning it is a very good way to use articles/templates of other users. --Florentyna (talk) 19:52, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

March 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from 2012 All England Super Series Premier. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Armbrust, B.Ed. <sup style="color:#E3A857;">Let's talk <sub style="color:#008000;">about my edits? 14:07, 8 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Please use the diskussion page of the 2012 All England Super Series Premier, so all other editors can participate. Due to your revert the linkrot is again on the page. And please use also the discussion page there to show all the editors, where you think additional citations are necessary and are not included in the weblinks and references. Florentyna (talk) 17:27, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to 2012 All England Super Series Premier, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. Armbrust, B.Ed. <sup style="color:#E3A857;">Let's talk <sub style="color:#008000;">about my edits? 18:14, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Super Series navigation templates
Hey, do you think we need a templates a season like 2012 BWF Super Series or merge for 10 seasons in one? If you agree to be 10 seasons in 1 then i will proceed. --Aleen f 1 06:02, 11 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm pro. Are you able to do it a little bit more educated, see for instance de:Vorlage:Navigationsleiste Badminton-Weltmeisterschaften. This works great. It switches between the years and between the disciplines in one template. --Florentyna (talk) 07:36, 11 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Do you know how to manage Portal? It seems Portal:Badminton outdated. --Aleen f 1 09:51, 24 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I think there is no problem to manage it, simply edit it (or the according subpages like Portal:Badminton/Selected picture, Portal:Badminton/Selected biography, Portal:Badminton/Featured article and so on). If you need more help, drop me a line. I care about the German portal, so some knowledge is there. It would be really great, if somebody would care about the English portal, too. --Florentyna (talk) 14:15, 24 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, i'm bit off in grammar, so i need your help to update. I suggest we can add upcoming tournament in portal. Also inform is that i'm working on template that use in Super Series, hope get all clear soon. Thank you. --Aleen f 1 17:08, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Links
I have removed the links on Maltese National Badminton Championships‎ again. If you are planning to create articles about all of these people with references to reliable sources, I suggest that you add the links as you create each article. Linking all of these names in the hope that someone, someday will create articles for these people is not useful. It is unlikely that any of these articles will ever be created unless you create them. I have stated my case on the article's talk page. Regards, Ground Zero | t 22:34, 13 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Not good. This is not the way we are doing in the badminton project. A lot of the Maltese players participated at the world championships, please have a look at the German version of the site. If you want to change the common way of linking in badminton, so please use Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Badminton. By the way, due to your edits you deleted content, duplicated templates and introduced about 20 misspellings. (What is by the way one of the advantages of redlinks, the easy way of finding misspellings.) --Florentyna (talk) 08:20, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I ended up doing exactly what I was trying to avoid. I went back through your edits trying to make sure that I kept the valid edits while removing the links, but it seems I was confused. I apologize for that.
 * I do not accept that "this is the way we do things" is a good argument for continunig to do things that way. I have begun at discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Badminton. Ground Zero | t 13:44, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Category:Turkish badminton players
Hallo Florentyna! Sehr aufmerksam von Dir bezüglich der o.g. Kategorie. Es hat sehr geholfen, zu weiteren Daten für Neslihan Yiğit über interwiki:de zu gelangen. Ein grosses Dankeschön. CeeGee (talk) 14:40, 24 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Kein Problem, schön ,wenn es dir geholfen hat. --Florentyna (talk) 15:08, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

May 2012
All England Championships information gained from Times Online newspapers, will eventually list all results of the tournaments including most rounds but some results are missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Racingmanager (talk • contribs) 23:07, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Template:Did you know nominations/Victoria Na
I have adddressed the concerns at Template:Did you know nominations/Victoria Na. Can you please re-review the article? --LauraHale (talk) 20:37, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Reiko Shiota
Hi, Florentyna. I removed the info from Reiko Shiota for two specific reasons. First, the sentence in the lead is a direct violation of WP:NPOV; it could only be added if clearly attributed to a reliable source. I removed the match record for two reasons: first, we generally don't provide match records for players--only their overall tournament results. Second, that record was basically useless, because it only represented a randomly chosen portion of her matches, and didn't even say when/where those matches occurred. Instead, we need to add her overall tournament record, and it needs to be verified by reliable sources. Qwyrxian (talk) 22:21, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Highest level of international cricket
The highest levels of international cricket are Test, One Day International and Twenty20 International. Youth One Day Internationals are "One Day Internationals" in name only - they actually have no such status attached to them, nor do they have the "lesser" status of List A matches. Howzat?Out!Out!Out! (talk) 19:43, 17 August 2012 (UTC)


 * For me from CRINT is played at the highest international and domestic level the reason for keeping. --Florentyna (talk) 21:14, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes but it isn't the highest international level, as explained above. See also ICC Classification of Official Cricket under the section "ONE DAY INTERNATIONALS (ODI)". Howzat?Out!Out!Out! (talk) 22:04, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

August 2012
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement. Please be particularly aware, Wikipedia's policy on edit warring states: If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. — G FOLEY   F OUR!  — 20:48, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made; that is to say, editors are not automatically "entitled" to three reverts.
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.


 * That's exactly the problem. A not explained mass removal of a protection template, what I reverted. Due to this, the articles are not more categorized in the correct way. --Florentyna (talk) 05:27, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Your move request for Gurusai Datt
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 * (Discuss) - Gurusai Datt → R. M. V. Gurusaidutt More common name, R. M. V. Gurusaidutt: 21,600 Google hits, Gurusai Datt 4,060 Google hits --Florentyna (talk) 10:41, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

Credo Reference
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Commonwealth Games
I agree it would be better but the problem I am encountering is that I cannot remember how to do the redirect. At present the years listed under this template all have existing articles called Badminton at the Commonwealth Games. I intend to make a new article for each Commonwealth Games so will need to redirect all of the years in this template. Many Thanks Racingmanager (talk) 18:49, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Hi Florentina!

Thanks for correcting Estonian champs for 2016.

Hopefully, we can redo this correction after 7-th of February ;)

Cheers, mukifuki

Mukifuki (talk) 20:17, 23 January 2016 (UTC) <br style="clear: both;"/>

Jaspar Yu Woon
Please do not add year of births without a source like you did for Jaspar Yu Woon. Wgolf (talk) 05:42, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Saw that you added better refs-thanks! Wgolf (talk) 05:44, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Indic scripts in lead
Per this edit and the few reverts preceding, just bringing WP:INDICSCRIPT to your attention. Regards, 220  of  Borg 19:38, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Hi..May i know where are you found Artem Karpov year of births? thanks


 * You can find on badm.ru a lot of birth years (without exact days), for instance www.badm.ru/files/File/ranking/2011/ranking_03_11(1).xls. On one sheet the birth year for Karpov is given with 1983, but I think this is a mistake. --Florentyna (talk) 14:41, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!
You might want to check out that user's other articles. InsertCleverPhraseHere  11:22, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Whoops, never mind, got to them first. They're gone.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  11:41, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I am sure that most of the created players are relevant, but more content will be needed and at least one sentence which will support the relevance of the player. I hope somebody will find the time and re-add the players - a lot of them are already on Chinese and German Wikipedias. --Florentyna (talk) 15:28, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Czech
I mean, when we open Czech page, it will show disambiguation. I think we should use ((Czech Republic|Czech)) or ((Czechs|Czech)).Stvbastian (talk) 11:22, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I understand what you mean. But as an adjective one should use Czech (and probably link it to Czechs like in Jan Mertl or Marek Michalička). --Florentyna (talk) 11:25, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * So, as I said above we should use ((Czech Republic|Czech)) or ((Czechs|Czech)) to avoid disambiguation.Stvbastian (talk) 11:33, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, right, this looks and sounds much better. Florentyna (talk) 11:35, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

Watch out for the new badminton pages
They all seem to be part of a sockpuppet (like this one that you did Lin Xiao-min), see Sockpuppet investigations/Muhd FUad Wgolf (talk) 01:48, 18 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, I already mentioned this, it is one and the same non-English/non-American native person. Nevertheless the contributions contain from my point of view no wrong or irrelevant data, even if the accuracy of the data addition could be improved same as the grammar and spelling. I am happy about everybody who is helping in the badminton project. Over the years there were only a few people doing the major part of the work, so I would rather invest some teaching then penalting. --Florentyna (talk) 04:00, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

I think that the user has done no abusive edits. His accounts should be unblocked and his articles should be undeleted. How to proceed? Andres (talk) 05:37, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

I am unhappy about what I am finding here. It was very different when I used to contribute here. It seems that such blockings and deletions are normal now. Andres (talk) 11:25, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

I undeleted Lin Xiao-min since I see you have edited it. Andres (talk) 11:33, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

See Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents. 11:40, 19 October 2016 (UTC)~


 * Thank you for the notification. I come back to you later, today I'm involved in other projects. Beside the interest to keep my contributions to Wikipedia alive I think it is most helpful if articles can be kept, which are not existing in other wikis as a base for authors in other languages (especially in China and Germany). Best Florentyna (talk) 15:19, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Sockpuppet investigations/Muhd FUad
Don't restore you comments or anything like them to this case. They are absolutely unconstructive and demontrate no understanding of policy. If you persist, you risk being blocked for disruption.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:56, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Nothing else I expected from you. Blocking and deleting is the way it goes here. Not a good one... I guess you can imagine that my first thinking was the same - a user who deletes without consensus 50 articles must be blocked. One can also compare the bad things Muhd FUad did and the deletion of 50 articles. I know what is worse... Florentyna (talk) 20:44, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Since you've already been pointed to the proper place to discuss this mass deletion issue (Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents), you do yourself nor anyone else any favors to continue to raise the issue at Sockpuppet investigations/Muhd FUad. The SPI page is SOLELY to discuss matters necessary to ascertain whether this newest account is a sock. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 20:13, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I think my discussion page is not the right place to talk about the whole thing - this will be a dead end street. So I chosen some days ago the page where the block first appeared (and this time it seemed to me that there are no other pages the for discussion available). I guess now I found the new place for the discussion - nevertheless (see above) I'm still very said about the things are going on here. Deleting 50 articles is more accepted than ...??? And this is my question: What happened on 4 October that makes the way for the deletion of 50 articles? Florentyna (talk) 20:44, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Du Yue
Hi Florentyna.. Can you help me to create Du Yue page. Thanks Stvbastian (talk) 00:46, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi Florentyna,, can you help me to request for unprotection for Goh Giap Chin.. Thanks Stvbastian (talk) 04:59, 29 November 2016 (UTC)

Tech me.
Hello friend. Can you tech me on how to be a good editor?. Wtc12 (talk) 07:08, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter
Hello ,


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Badminton at the Southeast Asian Games
User:Ryanjani16 has modeified Badminton at the Southeast Asian Games page but leave in the middle of his work. I can't undo his first action due to conflicting edits. Griff88 (talk) 12:56, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

BBC 12-hour Editathon - large influx of new pages & drafts expected
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New Page Review - newsletter #2
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Medals on Superseries Finals
Hi Florentyna.. I think Superseries finals result doesnt need to be included in medal tables. Based on BWF Superseries sites, Superseries finals graded as 'Superseries Premier' tournament same as Indonesia Open and Malaysia Open tournaments. The points of SSF tournament earned by the players also same with Indonesia Open. My suggestion, its should be placed on career or achievements part. Thanks --Stvbastian (talk) 11:25, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

New Page Review - newsletter No.2
Hello , We now have New Page Reviewers! Most of us requested the user right at PERM, expressing a wish to be able to do something about the huge backlog, but the chart on the right does not demonstrate any changes to the pre-user-right levels of October. The backlog is still steadily growing at a rate of 150 a day or 4,650 a month. Only 20 reviews a day by each reviewer over the next few days would bring the backlog down to a managable level and the daily input can then be processed by each reviewer doing only 2 or 3 reviews a day - that's about 5 minutes work! It didn't work in time to relax for the Xmas/New Year holidays. Let's see if we can achieve our goal before Easter, otherwise by Thanksgiving it will be closer to. Remember that we are the only guardians of quality of new articles, we alone have to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged by non-Reviewer patrollers and that new authors are not being bitten. This is even more important and extra vigilance is required considering Orangemoody,  and
 * A HUGE backlog
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 * Abuse
 * 1) this very recent case of paid advertising by a Reviewer resulting  in  a community ban.
 * 2) this case in January of paid advertising by a Reviewer, also resulting in  a community ban.
 * 3) This Reviewer is indefinitely blocked for sockpuppetry.

Coordinator election
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New Page Review - newsletter No.3
Hello , Voting for coordinators has now begun HERE and will continue through/to 23:59 UTC Monday 06 March. Please be sure to vote. Any registered, confirmed editor can vote. Nominations are now closed. We now have New Page Reviewers but despite numerous appeals for help, the backlog has NOT been significantly reduced. If you asked for the New Page Reviewer right, please consider investing a bit of time - every little helps preventing spam and trash entering the mainspace and Google when the 'NO_INDEX' tags expire. Discuss this newsletter here. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself from the mailing list. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:35, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
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Proposed deletion of Badminton at the Deaflympics


The article Badminton at the Deaflympics has been proposed for deletion&#32;because of the following concern:
 * Non-notable sports event

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You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 02:34, 9 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Where is the discussion on this proposed deletion? I don't find it anywhere. Could you be more specific as to where you put it, User:Sportsfan 1234? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.218.246.128 (talk) 17:36, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

New Page Review - Newsletter No.4
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Nomination of Michael Scandolera for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Michael Scandolera is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Michael Scandolera until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

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Nomination of Irina Gritsenko for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Irina Gritsenko is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Irina Gritsenko until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 21:16, 21 July 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of Kenya International for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kenya International is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Kenya International until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Philippe Hengen for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Philippe Hengen is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Philippe Hengen until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 20:19, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: Technology update: General project update: If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 20:33, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The new page backlog is currently at 16,991 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a a day.
 * has created a NPP browser in WMF Labs that allows you to search new unreviewed pages using keywords and categories.
 * The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team is working with the community to implement the autoconfirmed article creation trial. The trial is currently set to start on 7 September 2017, pending final approval of the technical features.
 * Please remember to focus on the quality of review: correct tagging of articles and not tagbombing are important. Searching for potential copyright violations is also important, and it can be aided by Earwig's Copyvio Detector, which can be added to your toolbar for ease of use with this user script.
 * To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: Technology update: General project update: If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 02:16, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The new page backlog is currently at 14304 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
 * Currently there are 532 pages in the backlog that were created by non-autoconfirmed users before WP:ACTRIAL. The NPP project is undertaking a drive to clear these pages from the backlog before they hit the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing a few today!
 * The Wikimedia Foundation is currently working on creating a new filter for page curation that will allow new page patrollers to filter by extended confirmed status. For more information see: 
 * On 14 September 2017 the English Wikipedia began the autoconfirmed article creation trial. For a six month period, creation of articles in the mainspace of the English Wikipedia will be restricted to users with autoconfirmed status. New users who attempt article creation will now be redirected to a newly designed landing page.
 * Before clicking on a reference or external link while reviewing a page, please be careful that the site looks trustworthy. If you have a question about the safety of clicking on a link, it is better not to click on it.
 * To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: Technology update: General project update: If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. TonyBallioni (talk) 17:47, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The new page backlog is currently at 12,878 pages. We have worked hard to decrease from over 22,000, but more hard work is needed! Please consider reviewing even just a few pages a day.
 * We have successfully cleared the backlog of pages created by non-confirmed accounts before ACTRIAL. Thank you to everyone who participated in that drive.
 * Primefac has created a script that will assist in requesting revision deletion for copyright violations that are often found in new pages. For more information see User:Primefac/revdel.
 * The Article Wizard has been updated and simplified to match the layout style of the new user landing page. If you have not yet seen it, take a look.
 * To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

Nomination of Philippe Hengen for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Philippe Hengen is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Philippe Hengen& until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Sportsfan 1234 (talk) 13:39, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: Outreach and Invitations:
 * The new page backlog is currently at 12713 pages. Please consider reviewing even just a few pages each day! If everyone helps out, it will really put a dent in the backlog.
 * Currently the backlog stretches back to March and some pages in the backlog have passed the 90 day Google index point. Please consider reviewing some of them!
 * If you know other editors with a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, invite them to join NPP by dropping the invitation template on their talk page with: . Adding more qualified reviewers will help with keeping the backlog manageable.

New Year New Page Review Drive
 * A backlog drive is planned for the start of the year, beginning on January 1st and running until the end of the month. Unique prizes will be given in tiers for both the total number of reviews made, as well as the longest 'streak' maintained.
 * Note: quality reviewing is extremely important, please do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

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 * ACTRIAL has resulted in a significant increase in the quality of new submissions, with noticeably fewer CSD, PROD, and BLPPROD candidates in the new page feed. However, the majority of the backlog still dates back to before ACTRIAL started, so consider reviewing articles from the middle or back of the backlog.
 * The NPP Browser can help you quickly find articles with topics that you prefer to review from within the backlog.
 * To keep up with the latest conversation on New Pages Patrol or to ask questions, you can go to Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers and add it to your watchlist.

New Years new page backlog drive
Hello, thank you for your efforts reviewing new pages!

Announcing the NPP New Year Backlog Drive!

We have done amazing work so far in December to reduce the New Pages Feed backlog by over 3000 articles! Now is the time to capitalise on our momentum and help eliminate the backlog!

The backlog drive will begin on January 1st and run until January 29th. Prize tiers and other info can be found HERE.

Awards will be given in tiers in two categories:


 * The total number of reviews completed for the month.
 * The minimum weekly total maintained for all four weeks of the backlog drive.

NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

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New Page Reviewer Newsletter
Hello, thank you for your efforts in reviewing new pages!

Backlog update: New Year Backlog Drive results:
 * The new page backlog is currently at 3819 unreviewed articles, with a further 6660 unreviewed redirects.
 * We are very close to eliminating the backlog completely; please help by reviewing a few extra articles each day!
 * We made massive progress during the recent four weeks of the NPP Backlog Drive, during which the backlog reduced by nearly six thousand articles and the length of the backlog by almost 3 months!

General project update: If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. 20:32, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ACTRIAL will end it's initial phase on the 14th of March. Our goal is to reduce the backlog significantly below the 90 day index point by the 14th of March. Please consider helping with this goal by reviewing a few additional pages a day.
 * Reviewing redirects is an important and necessary part of New Page Patrol. Please read the guideline on appropriate redirects for advice on reviewing redirects. Inappropriate redirects can be re-targeted or nominated for deletion at RfD.

New Page Review Newsletter No.10
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages! ACTRIAL:
 * ACTRIAL's six month experiment restricting new page creation to (auto)confirmed users ended on 14 March. As expected, a greatly increased number of unsuitable articles and candidates for deletion are showing up in the feed again, and the backlog has since increased already by ~30%. Please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day.

Paid editing
 * Now that ACTRIAL is inoperative pending discussion, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary.

Subject-specific notability guidelines
 * The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies. A further discussion is currently taking  place at: Can a subject specific guideline invalidate the General Notability Guideline?

Nominate competent users for Autopatrolled
 * While patrolling articles, if you find an editor that is particularly competent at creating quality new articles, and that user has created more than 25 articles (rather than stubs), consider nominating them for the 'Autopatrolled' user right HERE.

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 * The next issue Wikipedia's newspaper The Signpost has now been published after a long delay. There are some articles in it, including ACTRIAL wrap-up that will be of special interest to New Page Reviewers. Don't hesitate to contribute to the comments sections. The Signpost is one of the best ways to stay up date with news and new developments - please consider subscribing to it. All editors of Wikipedia and associated projects are welcome to submit articles on any topic for consideration by the The Signpost's editorial team for the next issue.

Slovenian International
Hi Florentyna.. Can you see the revision of Slovenian International? The user change some of German players to West Germany. Thank you. Stvbastian (talk) 12:13, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is correct. All of them are West Germans. The only one East German born is Katja Michalowsky, but in 1999 East Germany was already together in the unified German team. Florentyna (talk) 16:27, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.11 25 May 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

ACTRIAL:
 * WP:ACREQ has been implemented. The flow at the feed has dropped back to the levels during the trial. However, the backlog is on the rise again so please consider reviewing a few extra articles each day; a backlog approaching 5,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Deletion tags
 * Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders. They require your further verification.

Backlog drive:
 * A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons
 * There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy
 * Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines
 * The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

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 * A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.
 * Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
 * The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

NPP Backlog Elimination Drive
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive! Go here to remove your name if you wish to opt-out of future mailings. —  Insertcleverphrasehere (or here)  06:57, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
 * As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
 * Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: NPPbarnstar SE.png. Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: RR3217-0014 100 rubles USSR 1989 Gold avers.png, Swiss-Commemorative-Coin-1991-CHF-250-reverse.png, Coin of Kazakhstan 500Thinker averse.png, US-$1000-SC-1878-FR-346a-PROOF.jpg.
 * Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers. Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.
 * June backlog drive


 * New technology, new rules
 * New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
 * Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
 * Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.


 * Editathons
 * Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the 'move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

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 * The Signpost
 * The next issue of the monthly magazine will be out soon. The newspaper is an excellent way to stay up to date with news and new developments between our newsletters. If you have special messages to be published, or if you would like to submit an article (one about NPR perhaps?), don't hesitate to contact the editorial team here.

NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.


 * Project news
 * The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.
 * As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.


 * There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See New pages patrol/Coordination for more info to see if you can help out.


 * Other
 * A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.


 * Moving to Draft and Page Mover
 * Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
 * If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
 * Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
 * The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js(info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
 * The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018
Hello, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

, there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.
 * Backlog


 * Community Wishlist Proposal
 * There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
 * Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!


 * Project updates
 * ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
 * There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.


 * New scripts
 * User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js(info) — A new script created for quickly placing copyvio-revdel on a page.

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018
Hello ,
 * Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW
 * Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.


 * If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.


 * We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.


 * With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018
Hello ,

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.
 * Reviewer of the Year
 * Thanks are also extended for their work to (15,059 reviews),  (12,760reviews),  (9,001reviews),  (8,440reviews),  (8,092reviews),   (5,306reviews),  (4,153 reviews),  (4,016reviews),  and  (3,615reviews)., , , and  have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only sevenmonths, while , with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

See also the list of top100 reviewers.

The backlog is now approaching 5,000, and still rising. There are around 640holders of the NPR flag, most of whom appear to be inactive. The 10% of the reviewers who do 90% of the work could do with some support especially as some of them are now taking a well deserved break.
 * Less good news, and an appeal for some help

At #1 position, the Community Wishlist poll closed on 3December with a resounding success for NPP, reminding the WMF and the volunteer communities just how critical NPP is to maintaining a clean encyclopedia and the need for improved tools to do it. A big 'thank you' to everyone who supported the NPP proposals. See the results.
 * Really good news - NPR wins the Community Wishlist Survey 2019

Due to a number of changes having been made to the feed since this three-minutevideo was created, we have been asked by the WMF for feedback on the video with a view to getting it brought up to date to reflect the new features of the system. Please leave your comments here, particularly mentioning how helpful you find it for new reviewers. If you wish to opt-out of future mailings, go here. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:14, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Training video

NPR Newsletter No.17


Hello ,


 * News
 * The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.


 * Discussions of interest
 * Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons (Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page (Discussion).
 * db-blankdraft was merged into G13 (Discussion)
 * A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
 * There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.


 * Reminders
 * NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD  because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.


 * NPP Tools Report
 * Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
 * copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
 * The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828 Looking for inspiration? There are approximately 1000 female biographies to review. Stay up to date with even more news – subscribe to The Signpost.

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NPR Newsletter No.18


Hello ,

, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
 * Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.
 * Reliable Sources for NPP

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.
 * Backlog drive coming soon


 * News
 * Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models (WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.


 * Discussions of interest
 * A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
 * There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
 * What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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Badminton Henry Martin
Great spot, I have added my information to the page and nominated my page for deletion, the birth date was sourced from the date listed on the passenger list but I did not have the BMD information to confirm because he was born in Sri Lanka so the 1889 date is good.Racingmanager (talk) 08:25, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019


Hello ,

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important. Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR. The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever. NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so  you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations. Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for  the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging. Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway. School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.
 * WMF at work on NPP Improvements
 * QUALITY of REVIEWING
 * Backlog
 * Move to draft
 * Notifying users
 * PERM
 * Other news

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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Category:Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold has been nominated for discussion
Category:Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Stvbastian (talk) 03:58, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019
Hello ,

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.
 * Backlog

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.
 * Coordinator

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for  making  the occasional  mistake while  others can learn from  their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.
 * This month's refresher course

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.
 * Deletion tags

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.
 * Paid editing


 * Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion
 * Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
 * Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent  enhancements to  the New Pages Feed and  features in the Curation  tool, and there are still more to  come. Due to the wealth  of information  now displayed by  ORES, reviewers are strongly  encouraged to  use the system now rather than Twinkle; it  will  also  correctly  populate the logs.
 * Not English
 * A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.
 * Tools

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

is now patrolling certain categories of uncontroversial redirects. Curious? Check out its patrol log.

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello ,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon. There are now holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action. Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays. Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox. Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards. Admin has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers. Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources. Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13. The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights. There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion. To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:33, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Getting the queue to 0
 * Coordinator
 * This month's refresher course
 * Tools
 * It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
 * It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
 * Reviewer Feedback
 * Second set of eyes
 * Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
 * Do be sure to have our talk page  on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
 * Arbitration Committee
 * Community Wish list

New Page Review newsletter December 2019


This year's Reviewer of the Year is. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.
 * Reviewer of the Year

Special commendation again goes to who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to and  who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by.
 * Redirect autopatrol

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.
 * Source Guide Discussion

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag. Delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) at 16:10, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 * This month's refresher course

New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020
Hello ,

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.
 * Source Guide Discussion

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.
 * Redirects


 * Discussions and Resources
 * There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
 * A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
 * A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
 * A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.
 * Refresher

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Susan Devlin
Hi Florentyna, if you have some information, may i know is it true that Susan Devlin represented Canada in 1957 and 1959? (See: Canada Open. Thanks --Stvbastian (talk) 11:26, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't think so that she played for Canada, this is possible a remaining from the early days here on Wikipedia when I started together with MontanNito and Aleenf1, later also with Badmintonhist, to create a basic set of badminton tournaments and players. The Canadian citizenship probably arises from the Canadian Championships in the late 1950s, when Open and Closed Canadian Championships were played together and wrong flags (and states) were introduced to the players. Sue and Judy played 1957 and 1960 for the US in the Uber Cup, so the probability of a Canadian intermezzo is very low and the flags should be changed to the US. --Florentyna (talk) 14:32, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Title of tournament
Hi Florentyna, could you help me about the tournament title in this 1983 articles?
 * page 8, 9, 10-11, 26 Nordic Junior Championships
 * page 14, 22-23 European Junior Championships Individual + Teams
 * page 8, 10 pp. 8,9: 3 Nations Tournament DEN, SWE, ENG; p. 10: Austrian International
 * page 3-7 -> Friendly Games CHN vs. DEN
 * page 6 Holland Masters? -> English Masters 1985 Stvbastian (talk) 20:19, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I found another tournament in Ireland in 1988 held in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Is this tournament was part of Irish Open? (See: Trouw 14-11-1988) Stvbastian (talk) 13:59, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Irish Open I guess this tournament is very likely not. I think - because held in Northern Ireland in November this will be the Ulster Open 1988 (everytime held October/November). The BAE calendar terminates the Irish Open for February 1989, the Norwegian International like you already added for November 1988. No other international tournament is listed in this calendar for 13/14 Nov 1988 in the BAE calendar, but off course this is not the Irish calendar (but major international tournaments are listed). In the thing mentioned below I could not really help. --Florentyna (talk) 15:21, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi Florentyna, could you access this article  ? Stvbastian (talk) 05:00, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * No access, but the last link is about . --Florentyna (talk) 05:20, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately, score in the tournamentsoftware.com is wrong. Based on the men's singles result in www.dn.se, 1997 Czech International use best of 9 point. Stvbastian (talk) 23:15, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Need help in discussion
Hi Florentyna, i hope you can help me in this discussion Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring and noticeboard/Incidents. Actually, i tried to assist all disruptive editing in all badminton related articles made by that user, but the user seems cannot accept some advice, and i think all disruptive editing that the user made need to be reported. Stvbastian (talk) 13:16, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

New Page Review
Hello, can you please review my newly created article Elyzabeth Purwaningtyas (Sports:Badminton). Thanks. Zoglophie (talk) 10:54, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Actually this page 2006 Badminton World Cup is available in Deutsch and various Chinese variants too. Looks like I did mistake by Putting year ahead of Badminton World Cup, it should be like "Badminton World Cup 2006". A link confirms this https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh/2006%E5%B9%B4%E7%BE%BD%E6%AF%9B%E7%90%83%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E7%9B%83. Zoglophie (talk) 17:56, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I think in English they want to have the year ahead, same as in the English description on Wikidata. So everything is fine. --Florentyna (talk) 18:57, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

A reviewer is constantly denying for moving this page again to the main page Draft:1986 Badminton World Cup, please tell me what more is needed to ensure verification of the page. There are enough citations which can verify each and every thing, later I have put inline citations too. Please help.Zoglophie (talk) 17:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * The references were badly formatted, it should work now. Additionally, tangkis.com would need needs an archive link. Florentyna (talk) 19:33, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

I will put archive link afterwards. I can't thank you much, you have always helped me in fixing various issues. As you fixed my mistakes there in draft, does that mean it is ready to be included in main space.Zoglophie (talk) 19:43, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
 * I think so, that it is now ready for the main space. Florentyna (talk) 19:57, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Request
Hello, Florentyna. I have one request for you, please review the assessment of Wang Yihan & Li Xuerui articles, is it appropriate to site them as a 'Stub'? I was surprised when i checked Revision History Statistics. Zoglophie (talk) 06:48, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I changed the articles to start quality, probably they are even better. --Florentyna (talk) 08:17, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Didn't knew why Lene Mørk in German Wikipedia still doesn't show the English version which I recently created Lene Mørk, even though, the recently created English version is connected to Wikidata item. Probably some error in numbers? Zoglophie (talk) 20:29, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

My mistake spotted !! I did some error while creating Talk page of Lene Mørk, that's why page got hidden. My apologies for disturbing you. Zoglophie (talk)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Badminton in Sierra Leone


A tag has been placed on Category:Badminton in Sierra Leone requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 14:58, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Long-standing mix-up of Elo Hansen and Alan Parsons photos
Florentyna, the photos of Denmark's Elo Hansen and South Africa's Alan Parsons had been mixed-up for years before I finally got around to (and figuring out how to) change them. Trust me, I know they were wrong. I've seen images of Elo Hansen dating back to the 70's. However, if you go to You-Tube I think there is still a video of the the two men playing against each other in the final of the Dutch Open (1969 or '70) won by Hansen. This may have been the source of the original mixup where somebody got the two fellows reversed. Please change the images back. Best Regards. 70.181.40.210 (talk) 16:19, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * It was probably difficult, because they played against each other. Better is a source where only one is clearly pictured. Can be in one of the Danish journals, 1971-03, 1967-02. --Florentyna (talk) 19:57, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
 * User:Florentyna, Thanks for the response. If you go to page 34 of there's a photo of the 1970 Danish Thomas Cup team and Elo Hansen is pictured in the front row far right. He was quite a talent, by the way. 70.181.40.210 (talk) 20:15, 30 May 2020 (UTC)

Wikidata
Same subject Q96000252 and Q27918563. I also changed some label following their name in their social media or in relevant sources Q27906684, Q65428935, Q65429178, Q65429171, Q27893650, Q27889858. Stvbastian (talk) 17:30, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for the corrections. If you could made a summary for me, which version of the names should be the preferred one, I would like to apply this in my personal database and use it for semi-automatic additions on Wikidata in the future. Best --Florentyna (talk) 19:14, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

There is actually some problem. If you would try to search "Lene Mørk" in a browser, Only the German Wikipedia version will pop up. I visited the German page and clicked on the right where we can choose the another language [|here] for same page. Surprisingly, It indicates there is no page for English !! Even after there is page and has been reviewed. I searched for Lene Mørk in Wikipedia internally and it shows there. I simply don't know what's wrong. Can you sort out the issue? Regards  Zoglophie (talk) 11:22, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

<–This isthe link for English page of Lene Mørk. ~ Zoglophie (talk) 11:30, 22 July 2020 (UTC)


 * It only takes some time until the search engines are updated. It will appear soon. --Florentyna (talk) 12:27, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

As you said yes it appears now. But what is surprising that German page of Lene Mørk has no link to English page of same. Is there any wikidata error or something else? Zoglophie (talk) 15:30, 23 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It will also appear in the German version soon. Nothing wrong. There are some instructions how to purge the Wikipedia own cache, try to search for it on the Wikipedia help pages if necessary. Florentyna (talk) 18:19, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

New Page Reviewer newsletter June 2020
Hello ,

NPP Sorting can be a great way to find pages needing new page patrolling that match your strengths and interests. Using ORES, it divides articles into topics such as Literature or Chemistry and on Geography. Take a look and see if you can find time to patrol a couple pages a day. With over 10,000 pages in the queue, the highest it's been since ACPERM, your help could really make a difference. In late February, Google added 5 new languages to Google Translate: Kinyarwanda, Odia (Oriya), Tatar, Turkmen and Uyghur. This expands our ability to find and evaluate sources in those languages.
 * Your help can make a difference
 * Google Adds New Languages to Google Translate
 * Discussions and Resources
 * A discussion on handling new article creation by paid editors is ongoing at the Village Pump.
 * Also at the Village Pump is a discussion about limiting participation at Articles for Deletion discussion.
 * A proposed new speedy deletion criteria for certain kinds of redirects ended with no consensus.
 * Also ending with no change was a proposal to change how we handle certain kinds of vector images.

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Source
Hello Florentyna, I was looking for some source which can tell about the list of IBF Grand Prix tournaments of past so that I can differentiate between International tournaments and GP Tournaments. Do you have any reference regarding that? Thanks. Zoglophie (talk) 20:14, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't know which time period you are interested is, but some links below:


 * 2014-2021
 * 2004-2016
 * Shuttlenews
 * Original Danish Journals 1949-2005
 * Old tournaments --Florentyna (talk) 05:03, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

That was the great help. Thankyou very much 🙏 Zoglophie (talk) 08:41, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Mary Dinan/Sinnott
Hi, I'm wondering what the reason was for moving the article on Mary Dinan to Mary Sinnott, as for most of her career she has gone by her married name. Also in searching for references for her, she is more often referred to by Dinan, especially in relation to her longer badminton career. Thanks! Smirkybec (talk) 06:33, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, I did not move the article. The article Mary Sinnott exists already since 2010. I wondered only about the name when wanted to edit the Wikidata item, that there is already a person named Mary Sinnott. So I copied your addtions to the existing article. I never knew that her name was also Mary Sinnott, I also know only Mary Dinan. --Florentyna (talk) 09:52, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * How odd - the Wikipedia article did not appear in any of my searches for her! Would it have made sense to do the redirect the opposite way given she is better known as Mary Dinan? Thanks! Smirkybec (talk) 10:00, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I think one can do this. --Florentyna (talk) 10:13, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
 * If you copied Smirkybec's additions to the older article, you should also have given attribution for them. Please do so, as described at WP:MERGETEXT. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:29, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

European Para Badminton Championships
European Para Championships / https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badminton-Europameisterschaft_f%C3%BCr_Behinderte

hi, can you create this article? thanks. Bilamata (talk) 17:51, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Try to start, I will participate and help. I am time limited at the moment. --Florentyna (talk) 20:39, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

thanks, Do we have a robot that can count medals quickly and without mistakes? The first is for situations where the medal table has not been calculated.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senioren-Europameisterschaft_(Badminton)

But for example, when we have two or more medal tables and we want to get a total medal table, is there a robot or a way to do this quickly and without error? Manual counting is very time consuming and often full of mistakes. Thank you very much:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badminton-Europameisterschaft_f%C3%BCr_Behinderte_2016

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badminton-Europameisterschaft_f%C3%BCr_Behinderte_2018

Bilamata (talk) 21:16, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Badminton Asian Cup/Badminton Asia Cup
Hello Florentyna. I've recently created Badminton Asian Cup, a tournament for individual disciplines held in 1991, 94, 95 & 96. I see in German wikipedia, where, Asian Cup and Asia Cup (men's team Championships) have specific articles having differences in both the events. I was thinking not to make "Badminton Asia Cup" and to merge it with "Badminton Asian Cup" showing differences in both of them in single article. Will it be a right decision? Thanks, Zoglophie (talk) 14:37, 8 December 2020 (UTC)


 * please ping me when you'll reply. So I will get notified. Thanks again. :) Zoglophie (talk) 14:39, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Normally you should get a notification, when I answer this way here, i.e. pinging is normally not necessary. I would suggest not to merge teams and individuals. The events were totally different championships. See also here, especially the logos, where one can take the championship name from. Latest on Wikidata you will get into trouble, when merging different types of championships. --Florentyna (talk) 15:30, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Got it 👍 Zoglophie (talk) 17:17, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

New Page Patrol December Newsletter
Hello ,



It has been a productive year for New Page Patrol as we've roughly cut the size of the New Page Patrol queue in half this year. We have been fortunate to have a lot of great work done by who was the reviewer of the most pages and redirects this past year. Thanks and credit go to and  who join Rosguill in repeating in the top 10 from last year. Thanks to, , and who all got the NPR permission this year and joined the top 10. Also new to the top ten is DannyS712 bot III, programmed by which has helped to dramatically reduce the number of redirects that have needed human patrolling by patrolling certain types of redirects (e.g. for differences in accents) and by also patrolling editors who are on on the redirect whitelist.
 * Year in review

has been named reviewer of the year for 2020. John has held the permission for just over 6 months and in that time has helped cut into the queue by reviewing more than 18,000 articles. His talk page shows his efforts to communicate with users, upholding NPP's goal of nurturing new users and quality over quantity.
 * Reviewer of the Year

As a special recognition and thank you has been awarded the first NPP Technical Achievement Award. His work programming the bot has helped us patrol redirects tremendously - more than 60,000 redirects this past year. This has been a large contribution to New Page Patrol and definitely is worthy of recognition.
 * NPP Technical Achievement Award

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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:India Open Grand Prix Gold


A tag has been placed on Category:India Open Grand Prix Gold requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 14:19, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Korea Open Grand Prix Gold


A tag has been placed on Category:Korea Open Grand Prix Gold requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 16:18, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

Merry Christmas 😀🇩🇪🤶
🔹Zoglophie🔸 (tauk) 13:20, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics


A tag has been placed on Category:Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 16:07, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

1966 German Open
Hello Florentyna. I was adding achievements row in the article of Lene Køppen and I stumbled upon this tournament where Køppen is shown as runner-up to Irmgard Latz. If we check the age of Køppen that time, she was just a thirteen year old. Please can you check if the result given is correct or not. Thanks  🌌Zoglophie🌌  07:47, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Good remark, it must be Eva Twedberg, see No. 4. --Florentyna (talk) 09:35, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

New Page Patrol newsletter September 2021
Hello ,

Please join this discussion - there is increase in the abuse of Wikipedia and its processes by POV pushers, Paid Editors, and by holders of various user rights including Autopatrolled. Even our review systems themselves at AfC and NPR have been infiltrated. The good news is that detection is improving, but the downside is that it creates the need for a huge clean up - which of course adds to backlogs.

Copyright violations are also a serious issue. Most non-regular contributors do not understand why, and most of our  Reviewers are not experts on copyright law - and can't be expected to be, but  there is excellent, easy-to-follow advice on COPYVIO detection here.

At the time of the last newsletter (#25, December 2020) the backlog was only just over 2,000 articles. New Page Review is an official system. It's the only firewall against the inclusion of new, improper pages.

There are currently 706 New Page Reviewers plus a further 1,080 admins, but as much as nearly 90% of the patrolling is still being done by around only the 20 or so most regular patrollers.

If you are no longer very active on Wikipedia or you no longer wish to be part of the New Page Reviewer user group, please consider asking any admin to remove you from the list. This will enable NPP to have a better overview of its performance and what improvements need to be made to the process or its software. Various awards are due to be allocated by the end of the year and barnstars are overdue. If you would like to manage this, please let us know. Indeed, if you are interested in coordinating NPR, it does not involve much time and the tasks are described here. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here. Sent to 827 users. 04:31, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Nomination of List of German Open Men's Singles champions in badminton for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article List of German Open Men's Singles champions in badminton, to which you have significantly contributed, is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or if it should be deleted.

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New Page Patrol newsletter May 2022
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At the time of the last newsletter (No.26, September 2021), the backlog was 'only' just over 6,000 articles. In the past six months, the backlog has reached nearly 16,000, a staggering level not seen in several years. A very small number of users had been doing the vast majority of the reviews. Due to "burn-out", we have recently lost most of this effort. Furthermore, several reviewers have been stripped of the user right for abuse of privilege and the articles they patrolled were put back in the queue.

Several discussions on the state of the process have taken place on the talk page, but there has been no action to make any changes. The project also lacks coordination since the "position" is vacant.

In the last 30 days, only 100 reviewers have made more than 8 patrols and only 50 have averaged one review a day. There are currently Special:ListUsers/patroller New Page Reviewers, but about a third have not had any activity in the past month. All administrators have this permission, but only about a dozen significantly contribute to NPP.

This means we have an active pool of about 450 to address the backlog. We cannot rely on a few to do most of the work as that inevitably leads to burnout. A fairly experienced reviewer can usually do a review in a few minutes. If every active reviewer would patrol just one article per day, the backlog would very quickly disappear.

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New Page Patrol newsletter June 2022
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At the time of the last newsletter (No.27, May 2022), the backlog was approaching 16,000, having shot up rapidly from 6,000 over the prior two months. The attention the newsletter brought to the backlog sparked a flurry of activity. There was new discussion on process improvements, efforts to invite new editors to participate in NPP increased and more editors requested the NPP user right so they could help, and most importantly, the number of reviews picked up and the backlog decreased, dipping below 14,000 at the end of May.
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Since then, the news has not been so good. The backlog is basically flat, hovering around 14,200. I wish I could report the number of reviews done and the number of new articles added to the queue. But the available statistics we have are woefully inadequate. The only real number we have is the net queue size.

In the last 30 days, the top 100 reviewers have all made more than 16 patrols (up from 8 last month), and about 70 have averaged one review a day (up from 50 last month).

While there are more people doing more reviews, many of the ~730 with the NPP right are doing little. Most of the reviews are being done by the top 50 or 100 reviewers. They need your help. We appreciate every review done, but please aim to do one a day (on average, or 30 a month).

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NPP July 2022 backlog drive is on!
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New Page Patrol newsletter August 2022
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After the last newsletter (No.28, June 2022), the backlog declined another 1,000 to 13,000 in the last week of June. Then the July backlog drive began, during which 9,900 articles were reviewed and the backlog fell by 4,500 to just under 8,500 (these numbers illustrate how many new articles regularly flow into the queue). Thanks go to the coordinators and, as well as all the nearly 100 participants. Congratulations to who led with 880 points. See this page for further details.
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Unfortunately, most of the decline happened in the first half of the month, and the backlog has already risen to 9,600. Understandably, it seems many backlog drive participants are taking a break from reviewing and unfortunately, we are not even keeping up with the inflow let alone driving it lower. We need the other 600 reviewers to do more! Please try to do at least one a day.


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October 2022 New Pages Patrol backlog drive
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New Page Patrol newsletter October 2022
Hello , Much has happened since the last newsletter over two months ago. The open letter finished with 444 signatures. The letter was sent to several dozen people at the WMF, and we have heard that it is being discussed but there has been no official reply. A related article appears in the current issue of The Signpost. If you haven't seen it, you should, including the readers' comment section.

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New Pages Patrol newsletter January 2023
Hello , The October drive reduced the backlog from 9,700 to an amazing 0! Congratulations to who led with 2084 points. See this page for further details. The queue is steadily rising again and is approaching 2,000. It would be great if <2,000 were the “new normal”. Please continue to help out even if it's only for a few or even one patrol a day. won the 2022 cup for 28,302 article reviews last year - that's an average of nearly 80/day. There was one Gold Award (5000+ reviews), 11 Silver (2000+), 28 Iron (360+) and 39 more for the 100+ barnstar. led again for the 4th year by clearing 49,294 redirects. For the full details see the Awards page and the Hall of Fame. Congratulations everyone!
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<b style="color:#fffdd0">zoglophie</b> 12:36, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I added your data to de:Badminton-Weltmeisterschaft 1979 in the most likely version. In my first version of de:Badminton-Weltmeisterschaften with the WBF 1979 I cited sports.sina.com.cn from 2007, where Patama and Suleeporn were mentioned as WD winners . --Florentyna (talk) 21:34, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

February 2023
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New Page Patrol – May 2023 Backlog Drive
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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023
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Badminton World Cup
Finally, all the medalists have been found! There were missing informations in 1980, 1985, 1989, 1990 & 1992 World Cup which was all found in Singaporean Chinese newspapers. I hope to found more tournament results from it. Meanwhile, can you put some source in 1976 Asian Championships medalists just for a reference? Thankyou. <b style="color:#fffdd0">zoglophie</b> 11:20, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot, the sources should be all on de:Badminton-Asienmeisterschaft 1976. --Florentyna (talk) 12:11, 14 September 2023 (UTC)

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November Articles for creation backlog drive
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